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Land values rise
Your cover story on 25 January claims that land valuation rises could herald increases in Council rates. This is...
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Appeal for flag stolen from Bruns
The two Aboriginal flags that fly high over the Brunswick River Bridge on Invasion Day have become a potent symbol of survival and solidarity for many in the Shire.
It’s not the fossils, it’s the fools
Humans have been muddling along in cities for around twelve thousand years, says Wikipedia, although if you count using an alphabet of some kind as the criterion of civilisation, the time span drops to a mere fifty centuries.
V-Day returns to Byron Bay, February 14
A mass global action, One Billion Rising, which aims to end violence against women and children, is planned for V-Day on February 14, Main Beach, Byron Bay from 7am.
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Have your Perfect Say
We live in a community where there is nowhere to live and the whole world is watching what we do next, wondering if we will do what their superstar tourist destinations did and regulate the housing market
TELSTRA – The end of the line?
I live in a valley that was ravaged by flood last year. Telegraph poles were swept out of the...
Old ANZ Mullum
The old ANZ Bank building on Burringbar Street in Mullum is now a bathhouse; such yuppy city indulgence to...
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‘Drunk’ woman dragged unconscious from surf at 2am
Lifesavers have issued a warning after a tourist, who police say was drunk, had to be rescued from Byron Bay’s Main Beach at 2am on Saturday (April 9).
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Go Thistles!
Lismore Thistles Soccer Club has launched the Thistles Acceleration Program, in the process becoming the city’s only player development academy.
Byron Echo
Pothole protest gets immediate results
Psst: want to get Council staff to do something about the appalling state of roads in your neighbourhood?
Organise a protest outside Mullum’s Council Chambers!
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What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Art imitates life in What’s Love Got to Do with It? a 2022 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur, from a screenplay by Jemima Khan.
The precis reads: ‘Set between London and Lahore, a filmmaker documents her childhood friend and neighbour’s arranged marriage to a bride from Pakistan.’
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We’ve had the rain bomb, is a fire bomb next?
We had the Black Summer fires and then the floods and NSW Farmers says time is running out to prevent more mass bushfires at the end of this year.